Jere, if DM spent $100 million a year to keep things open, he could probably do that for as long as he lives without running out of money, there’s that much in reserves. and $100 million a year is about $750,000 per Class V local org, more than enough for a lot of the money to actually go to upper level and international orgs, buy Super Bowl ads, etc.

i think he plans on running out the clock, and stands a good chance of managing that unless some sort of ‘black swan’ event (including action by authorities) occurs. while doing so he can even continue to christen renovated ‘ideal’ buildings at the rate of one or two a year and keep up the propaganda illusion of ‘expansion’.

“Reserves” MIGHT be used to keep the Potemkin villages seemingly functional for a (short) while — until Davey tires of his little games.

OT III, as it was written in the tubby one’s own hand, IS public knowledge, yet there’s been no news of mysterious deaths, spontaneous combustion, or whatever. I don’t think I’ve had even so much as a cold since I read that drivel. It COULD be a vaccination against the common cold, for all I know.

Scicrit, leaving PeaceRaker’s comment alone is the best tactic; let him hang himself with his own illiterate ramblings. The fact that scientology’s “blogs” don’t allow any disagreement with the party line is of little importance. It seems Hubbard took the book “1984” as an instruction manual.

I was under the Missions were all dead or converted to “orgs”, level V or lower. Any mission so converted is as good as dead, since Orgs always failed to produce new “raw meat” scns in the numbers sufficient to offset shrinkage of scns just walking away from the hamster wheel.

scn’s PRIMARY “public” has been their staff, for a while. Without the truly dedicated willing slaves, there is no more scientology. Sadly, they’re aging out and have to be dumped someplace for “wogs” to take care of. It’s really a shame that “wogs” and “bitter apostates” care more for them than their seniors do, in the long, and short, run.

scientology SAYS many things, most of them false. IF it could have ever delivered on its promises, even in one specific area, we wouldn’t be out here taking pot shots at it’s desiccated corpse.

If nothing else the cancelled certs MIGHT be helpful in starting a Solstice fire to keep warm with.

Will the “OT” even notice? The only thing he *might* miss is the adulation of scns who think that his past accomplishments are somehow significant. It’s not as if he gained some sort of superpower which will magically dissolve with his certs being cancelled.

LmR, McSavage hardly has a barely-adequate grasp of English, much less Aramaic, which is too far below him to sully his tongue with.